Prohibition
The poverty of anti-smoking laws
Smokers are not a drain on the economy
Bans work, actually
On the myth of authoritarian ineffectiveness
The sad side of “smokefree”
Let’s not pretend that there are no benefits to smoking
Prohibitionist alchemy
More alcohol advertising does not mean more drinking
Against the neo-prohibitionists
Drug users have agency — let them choose for themselves
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
